About Edmund Metatawabin
Born 1948. Edmund Metatawabin is a Canadian writer.
Edmund Metatawabin is a First Nations chief and writer, whose 2014 memoir Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2014 Governor General's Awards.
A former chief of the Fort Albany First Nation in Ontario, he published Up Ghost River, cowritten with journalist Alexandra Shimo, as a memoir of his childhood experience in Canada's Indian residential schools system.
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Who is Edmund Metatawabin?
Canadian writer and First Nations chief
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Edmund Metatawabin was born in 1948.
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Edmund Metatawabin is a writer.
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Edmund Metatawabin is Canadian.
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